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[Andres Rodriguez <andres.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm happy to announce that MAAS 1.9.0 Alpha 3 has been released for testing.
Notable changes:

*Features:*

   - *Advanced Network Configuration WebUI*
      - The MAAS Node Details WebUI now supports the configuration of
      advanced networking for the following:
         - Change network interface names.
         - Configure Interface with a fabric, vlan, subnet.
         - Configure network interface with different modes (Auto-Assign,
         DHCP, Statically assign or leave unconfigured)
         - Create VLAN, Bond and Alias interfaces.


   - *Fabrics, Spaces, Subnets WebUI*
      - MAAS Subnets tab page. Allows users to view all the Fabrics and
      Spaces, and all the associated VLAN's and subnetworks.
      - For more information, please refer to  http://maas
      .ubuntu.com/docs/networking.html
      <http://maas.ubuntu.com/docs/storage.html>


   - *Advanced Storage Configuration WebUI*
      - MAAS Storace configuration allows users to Format, Mount and
      Unmount filesystems.

*Known problems and Work Arounds*

   - Juju fail to SSH due to changing MAAS' /etc/network/interfaces
      - By default, Juju will change eth0 on /etc/network/interfaces in
      order to support LXC container addressability with MAAS. However,
      starting from MAAS 1.9 provided that MAAS writes
      /etc/network/interfaces, users will be unable to successfully finish the
      bootstrap process provided Juju re-configures /etc/network/interfaces
      causing that eth0 never comes back up.
      - To work around this issue, users will have to deploy with
      `disable-network-management: true`.
      - For more information, please refer to

*[2] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1494476
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/1494476>*


   - CentOS fails to deploy when deploying with LVM

MAAS will fail to deploy CentOS with LVM by default. This can be changed by
changing the Setting of the default deployment layout to Flat. This can be
done in the MAAS Settings page under the storage section.

*[3]:* *https://launchpad.net/bugs/1499558
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/1499558>*

*Testing*
MAAS 1.9.0 Alpha 3 will be available for testing in:

*ppa:maas/next-proposed*

After 48hrs, MAAS 1.9.0 Alpha 3 will be made available in:

*ppa:maas/next*


*Other work in progress*
Please note that there's other work in progress, that is not yet visible,
to enhance some of the features above or to complete some new features that
will be made available as part of 1.9. Current work in progress is:

   - Advanced Storage Configuration WebUI
      - LVM
      - RAID
      - BCache


-- 
Andres Rodriguez
Engineering Manager, MAAS & OIL DevOps
Canonical USA, Inc.